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Introduction: Acting in Concert
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T
he essays included here represent some of my most recent work
on gender and sexuality focusing on the question of what it
might mean to undo restrictively normative conceptions of sexual and
gendered life. Equally,

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Learning to Curse:
Aspects of Linguistic
Colonialism in the
Sixteenth Century
At the close of M usophilus, Samuel Daniel's brooding philosophical
poem of 1599, the poet's spokesman, anxious and uncertain through
much of the dialogue in the face of his o